In early 2016, Ernest Chang was given the permission to use his photographic lens to document the interior of the almost 100 years old Blue House in Wan Chai, a Hong Kong symbol of heritage preservation, before it was revamped and revitalized.

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The Super Urban Series consists of nine photographs shot around Hong Kong Island, stylized into the textured, densely colored panels of a comic book. With its sense of heightened reality, the series explores the most down-to-earth scenes and atmospheres in the urban spaces of Hong Kong.

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The Falsely Implied Series imposes new dimensions and spatial symmetry onto familiar street scenes in Hong Kong. The five intricate compositions overlay multiple photographs of Wan Chai’s historic streets to create symmetrical visual matrices of neon-tinged roads and buildings, bringing out the vibrant lights and colors of a gentrifying neighborhood. This mix of photographic images and stylized, contrastive colors enliven a historic neighborhood in the heart of Hong Kong.

All artworks in the series are printed with high-quality oil ink on canvas.

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The Frozen Fusion Series was created in collaboration with Artist Justin Y, whose finger paintings form the background in the five images. The series was created with time-lapse photographs taken at the Canon Studios. The series compresses and flattens the dimensions of time, length, height and width into two-dimensional works, showing the power of photography to manipulate the visual and physical world.

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The Morph Series is an experimental project consisting of periodically added portraits. The photographs in the series are symmetrical compositions placed side by side to form mirror images that speak to contrasting perspectives of perception. Each diptych consists of a positive and a negative version of the mirrored portrait, creating a visual balance that is at once decorative and contemplative.

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The Look Sideways So It's A Car Series consists of four digital paintings created from images of speeding automobiles. The series plays on the technique used in many contemporary pieces involving ambiguous images that obstruct the instinctive human reaction to perceive objects as a whole. Because of the artist's color-blindness, the paintings are in gaudy primary colors, distracting viewers from seeing the cars that are clearly visible sideways.

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The I'MMORTAL Series consists of paintings inspired by the mortality of six famous Western thinkers and intellectuals with complex inner worlds. Famous quotes by the six subjects are conspicuously imprinted onto the figures’ physical forms, combining language and semiotics into one singular focus in the composition.

All artworks are digitally printed using high-quality oil paint on canvas.

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The Explicable Visual Disability Series plays on visual perception. The three diptychs in the series are based on photographs taken during a Chinese New Year fireworks display. The color, orientation, layering, positioning and verbal text in the works break up the compositions into seemingly disparate parts, obstructing viewers’ attempt at making out the uniform whole.

The text on the top layer of the works draws viewers’ attention as they instinctively try to read it. As decoding words is a function of the left brain, the placement of text in the works playfully inhibits the right brain, supposedly the more perceptive hemisphere that enables artistic appreciation.

All artworks are digitally printed using high quality oil paint on canvas.

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The Untitled Sharing Series consists of eight experimental digital media prints with heightened textures that attempt to show what people with visual disabilities see. With a bit of imagination on the viewer’s part, the images can become more vivid or more elusive. The images are based on the illustration of a man and a woman sharing a cigarette, an act that captures a telling moment as two people bond. The viewer’s focus is instantly drawn to the distortions as they make out what they are looking at: are the lines scratches on a wall, or just random doodles on paper? The true story lurks mysteriously behind the playful visual illusions.

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The Outcast Series was originally designed to be printed on a summer dress. The series consists of three digital media prints depicting glowing fireflies and one depicting a glowing light bulb in playful contrast.

These prints are available as high-quality oil-based ink prints on canvas.

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